Nicolaes Pietersz. Berchem
Prolific Dutch Italianate pastoral landscape painter
Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem was a highly esteemed and prolific Dutch Golden Age painter of pastoral landscapes, populated with mythological or biblical figures, but also of a number of allegories and genre pieces. He was a member of the second generation of "Dutch Italianate landscape" painters. These were artists who travelled to Italy, or aspired to, in order to soak up the romanticism of the country, bringing home sketchbooks full of drawings of classical ruins and pastoral imagery. His paintings, of which he produced an immense number, (Hofstede de Groot claimed around 850, although many are misattributed), were in great demand, as were his 80 etchings and 500 drawings. His landscapes, painted in the Italian style of idealized rural scenes, with hills, mountains, cliffs and trees in a golden dawn are sought after. Berchem also painted inspired and attractive human and animal figures (staffage) in works of other artists, like Allaert van Everdingen, Jan Hackaert, Gerrit Dou, Meindert Hobbema and Willem Schellinks.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Jacob Ochtervelt Student
- Jan van Goyen Master
- Johannes Glauber Student
- Karel Dujardin Student
- Nicolaes Moeyaert Master
- Pieter De Hooch Student
- Pieter Fransz. de Grebber Master
- Willem Romeyn Student
Fellow student
Influenced
- Jan Hackaert Influenced
- Gerrit Dou Influenced
- Meindert Hobbema Influenced
- Willem Schellinks Influenced
- Abraham Jansz. Begeyn
- Carel van Falens
- Hendrick Mommers
- Jan Baptist Wolfaerts
- Jean-Baptiste Pillement
- Johann Heinrich Roos
- Pieter Bout
Artworks by this artist
- Furt in südlicher Landschaft 1665-1670
- A Road through a Wood
- The Calling of Saint Matthew ca. 1639
- An Italianate landscape with a shepherdess on a mule and a shepherd, herding cattle, sheep, donkeys and dogs on a mountain track next to ruins
- Bétail à l’abreuvoir, avec un berger et quatre bergères (Lugt 5) 1679
- Peasants Dancing in a Barn 1655 - 1683
- Et stående og et pissende får
- Stenblok med et basrelief forestillende en hyrde, der hælder vand i et trug
- Eine Kuh, eine Ziege und ein Schaf beieinander in einer bergigen Landschaft liegend
- Tre får
- Stående ko og liggende geder og får 1644
- Rest in front of a Tavern 1650
- Hirtin zu Pferde, zwei Hirten zu Fuß, bei einer Kuhherde
- War Time
- The City Wall of Haarlem in the Winter 1647
- Italianate River Landscape With Herdsmen By The Ruins Of An Amphitheatre, And Peasants Crossing A Bridge
- Landscape with a pastoral scene
- Landscape with a Nymph and a Satyr 1647
- The Return from the Hunt 1660s
- Italianate Landscape With Cows